Snowflake Challenge - day 10
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flo_neljaIn your own space, share your love for a trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme. (Or a few!) Tell us what makes it work for you, and why it appeals to you so much. Talk about what you like to see in fanworks featuring that theme most. Feel free to include recs and examples! Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I really love fairy tale, myths and legends, and I love to use them again and again.
I love rewritings, when they are well done (I have high standards for this since literature had been doing it a lots since centuries). In fantasy, in plays, in poetry, anything.
In fandom, in addition to even more rewritings, I love fairy tale AUs and myth AUs! The interesting part is to find exactly the right fairy tale that just suits a characters. it's simple stories, about family, love, ambitions, fears, adventures, and of course you'll often find the one which is just right.
I also love when in universe, the author is using symbolism (subtle or not subtle at all) so we can see that he saw a parallel with a myth in his story, and shows it. When it's unsubtle, it's fun when the characters show the patterns themselves, and lampshade them.
I really love fairy tale, myths and legends, and I love to use them again and again.
I love rewritings, when they are well done (I have high standards for this since literature had been doing it a lots since centuries). In fantasy, in plays, in poetry, anything.
In fandom, in addition to even more rewritings, I love fairy tale AUs and myth AUs! The interesting part is to find exactly the right fairy tale that just suits a characters. it's simple stories, about family, love, ambitions, fears, adventures, and of course you'll often find the one which is just right.
I also love when in universe, the author is using symbolism (subtle or not subtle at all) so we can see that he saw a parallel with a myth in his story, and shows it. When it's unsubtle, it's fun when the characters show the patterns themselves, and lampshade them.
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Date: 2018-01-12 05:14 pm (UTC)Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett. Looks at the power of story and the twisting of fairytales :)
Fic retellings:
Beast of Both Worlds Beauty and the Beast
Rules of The Forest, Red Riding Hood
Howl and Response Red again :)
Rough Diamond Beauty and the Beast (need an AO3 account to read)
Rumpelstiltskin: A Hackers Tale
Beleza and the B.E.A.S.T. scifi f/f Beauty/Beast
The Path of Thorns disturbing take on Red Riding Hood
Happy To Help "It's not easy working the Help Desk at the annual Fairy Tale Villains Conference. Some villains are just impossible to please." Humour.
Fanfic:
Optica Eterna, MCU, Snow White AU
it was just red, The Borgias, Red Riding Hood elements
Sleeping Barry, The Flash, Sleeping Beauty
And I make fanworks too, using the tag theme: fairy tales
:) That includes my partial orignal work retlling of Snow White, Eirwen which I'd like to finish someday! I have other retellings I'd like to work on including a male Red Riding Hood/female werewolf :)
I hope there's something in all that which takes your fancy :) I had fun going through my AO3 bookmarks to choose the best ones I had marked with that trope :)
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